[Fedora-xen] kvm crash on f8

[Richard W.M. Jones]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> I looked at some images in /var/lib/xen/images/ and since they have 
> partition tables and look, to me, just like disks, I copied part of my 
> hard disk to /var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img
> 
> The reason is that I want to try the Windows XP that came preinstalled, 
> and copying /dev/sda for a length I calculated includes the entire 
> /dev/sda1 partition seems a likely way to test it.
> These are the commands:
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img count=76597082
> dd of=/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img seek=320072933376 bs=1 count=0

I don't understand this second command.  What's the input?  Are you 
typing something on stdin (eg. ^D)?

Rich.

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